Candy package or container



H. C. BOEHM. CANDY PACKAGE 0R CONTAINER. APPLICATION man MAYJB. 191a.

' 1,334,346. Patented Mar. 23, 1920.

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HENRY C. BOEHM, F JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

CANDY PACKAGE OR CONTAINER.

the user can readily partake thereof without soiling the hands or clothing.

The package or container is particularly designed for use in connection with sectional stick candy and the most important purpose in view is to construct the package so that it constitutes a normally continuous-inclosure, common to several alined candy sections; dividing. said container by a suitable line of demarcation to provide a section thereof for each of the contained candy sections when the container is broken or separated on said line of demarcation and incorporating with the container, sealing and ejecting heads, the latter arranged and designed to provide one for each separated container section to enable the user to readily expose the candy for use.

Another object of the invention is to provide a candy package of the class specified which will permit of partaking of the candy without causing the hands to be brought in contact therewith.

Another object of the invention is to provide a candy package or container which will be extreme y simple of construction and of such design which will permit of its being supplied with candy with facility and a material saving of labor.

To these ends the invention consists in the novel details of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which like numerals designate like parts in all the views Figure 1 is a perspective view of the package.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section therethrough.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 23, 1920.

Application filed May 16, 1919. Serial No. 297,643.

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the tube in its normal state before the application of the heads thereto.

Fig: 4 is a perspective view of one section of the package illustrating the manner ot' ejecting the candy therefrom.

Fig. 5 is a vertical section through said section.

In carrying the invention into practice,

use is made of a tube constructed preferably of cardboard or other suitable stiff ma tcrial. At the center or other desired point or points, the tube is scored annularly as at 11 so that separable sections 12 and 13 are provided, the scored portion serving to weaken the structure and permit the same to be strained laterally and broken when slight pressure is applied to the ends thereof.

As previously stated, the tube is intended particularly for use in connection with sectional stick candy and as illustrated, the length of the tube slightly exceeds the combined lengths of the candy sections 14 and 15 and they are otherwise properly proportioned so that the joint between the alined sections 14 and 15 comes in line with the scored portion 11.

The ends of the tube are closed by heads 16 and 17, one for each of the sections 12 and 13. The marginal walls of the tube are upstruck and extended axially against said heads and the same are arranged in close confinement with the adjacent ends of the candy sections. The construction causes the joint between the candy sections to always lie in the same line with the scored or weakened portion of the tube and this insures a free breaking of the latter when the contents of the package is desired. It also seals the ends of the package and renders the same water and dust proof. The inner faces of the disks are paraifined or otherwise treated in some suitable well known manner to prevent. adhesion between said disks and the candy. In addition to the described functioning of the disks, they are also intended to constitute ejecting means for feeding the candy sections from the respective sections 12 and 13 of the tube when the latter is broken for use.

The advantages of the structure having been fully disclosed, its use is briefly described as follows:

Assuming the package to be filled as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, it follows that the purchaser in order to obtain the contents need only grasp the ends of the package in his or her hands and by applying slight lateral pressure thereagainst the package will be broken and the sections 12 and 13 thereof separated from each other. In so doing, one section of the stick candy will remain in one section of the package and the remaining section in the other part of said package as will be understood. The disks are then free for sliding movement and by holding either one of the package sections in the hand, one finger of the user can be inserted against the disk and pressure exerted thereagainst to feed the candy from the op posite open end of the said package section.

The arrangement also provides means whereby should it be desired that several persons Wish to partake of the contents of the package, the respective sections can be distributed among them Without the necessity of the hands coming in direct contact with the contents. The tube sections also serve as Wrappers for the candy to prevent weakened portion,

the candies closely and being of slightly 1 soiling of the hands and clothing of the user.

What I claim is In a candy package, a tubular container, the said container having an annular weakened portion midway its ends, a pair of candies of cylindrical shape arranged in said container and having their adjacent ends terminating in alinelnent with the said the said container fitting greater length than the combined lengths of the said candies, heads in said container bearlng against the outer ends of the candies and being slidable in the said container, and those portions of the container projecting beyond the outer ends of the candies being folded inwardly and crimped against the said heads to prevent outward movement of the latter.

'Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 7th day of May A. D. 1919.

HENRY O. BOEHM. 

